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Whenever I get stuck for a Newsletter theme
I always fall back on dips and marinades, so here we go! I happen to
like cottage cheese and have a great dip for your chips. If you can lay
your hands on some crocodile meat, I have a dip for that as well, if you
want to catch your own croc, just approach from the correct end! Then I
have some marinades for a steak and chicken bbq as well as that favourite
in SA, chicken livers peri-peri. Finally a marinade and marmalade sauce
for pork!

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1. Pour cottage cheese, milk and yoghurt into a food processor and blend until smooth.
2. Add garlic and chopped gherkin. Blend until smooth and season with salt and pepper.
3. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 2 days.

Melt the butter in a pan and stir in the flour. Heat for one to two minutes, stirring continually. Remove the pan from the heat and add the milk while stirring. Whisk the sauce with a wire beater until smooth and creamy. Return to the heat and bring to the boil. Simmer until the sauce thickens and is cooked. Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Set aside to cool. Add the meat, parsley, chives, nutmeg, green pepper, chilli sauce and chopped hard-boiled eggs to the cooled sauce and mix well. Shape into balls and dredge with flour. Dip the balls in the whisked egg and roll in the dry breadcrumbs. Chill for 20 minutes. Roll each ball in egg and dried breadcrumbs again and chill for another 20 minutes. Heat the oil until very hot and deep-fry a few balls at a time until golden brown. To make the dip, mix all the ingredients together and season to taste, Serve with the meatballs.

Blend all the ingredients for marinade, pour over the meat and marinate for about 4 hours. Remove the meat from the marinade and pat dry with paper
toweling before grilling, otherwise it will not brown evenly. Grill the meat over medium hot coals or under the oven grill for medium: 7-10 minute in total and for
well done: 10-12 minutes in total. Baste frequently with the remaining marinade.

Shake the marinade ingredients together in a screw-top jar. Pour over chicken pieces and marinate for 2 hours in the refrigerator. Remove from the fridge 3 hours before cooking. Braai, grill or fry until cooked through.

Cut pork fillets into 1 cm thick slices then cut each slice into 4 strips. MARINADE: Stir cornflour, lemon juice, sherry, ginger, soy sauce and seasoning together in a bowl, then stir in egg white. Stir in pork strips and leave to marinate for 30 minutes. Tip pork into a colander and shake to drain off some of the marinade, then lay strips out on a board or tray. Sprinkle with half the sesame seeds, turn over and sprinkle with remainder. Fry in a deep fryer or 5 cm deep hot oil in a frying pan (do not overcrowd pan) for 4 to 5 minutes, or until golden. Drain on paper towels.] SAUCE: Stir all ingredients, except sesame oil, together in a small saucepan over moderate heat until mixture boils and clears. Remove from stove and stir in sesame oil (which loses its delicate taste if overheated).] Serve pork on a bed of shredded lettuce or Chinese cabbage, garnished with lemon and cucumber slices and cherry tomatoes. Pour sauce over just before serving. Equally tasty hot or cool.

Variation:
Instead of pork, use chicken breasts and serve with apricot sauce. Apricot sauce: substitute apricot jam for the marmalade and English mustard, for the sesame oil in the marmalade sauce recipe. Stir into remaining ingredients before boiling.